Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility

NRC. 2001d. Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation Technology Development for Treatment of VX Hydrolysate at the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. Letter Report of the Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program. Washington, D.C. Board on Army Science and Technology. 

NECDF NMR NRC Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility nuclear magnetic resonance National Research Council... 

The Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility is designed to destroy the stockpile of nerve agent VX stored in ton containers at the Newport Chemical Depot. The overall process employed in the facility design is divided into three major process steps ... 

Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (Letter Report, January 2001)... 

NECDF, Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. 

Indiana, as a condition of granting a permit for an incinerator that generates or treats a hazardous waste associated with chemical munitions, by statute, requires proof from the facility that its emissions, alone or in combination with other substances, pose no risk of an acute or chronic human health effect or of adverse environmental effect (Indiana Code 13-22-3-10(a)(2)). However, neither the Indiana Department of Environmental Management regulations nor the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (NECDF) permit specifically calls for submission of an HRA.14... 

Finding 2-4. The requirements for conducting a health and environmental risk assessment for the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility are similar to the state of Indiana requirements for a risk assessment of gaseous emissions from a commercial PCB incinerator. These requirements, which are similar to EPA guidelines for health risk assessments, are a reasonable approach to assessing the health risk posed by the NECDF. 

Rowden, S., J. Brubaker, and R. Irvine. 2006. Risk Assessment Approach to Evaluation of Airborne Releases from a Chemical Demilitarization Facility, March 2. Newport, Ind. Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. 

Zimmerman, G.P., J.T. Ensminger, and J.W. Saulsbury. 2003. Transportation Analysis for the Off-site Shipment of Liquid Process Effluent from the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility at the Newport Chemical Depot, Indiana, December. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency. 

NOTE ANCDF, Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility DPE, demilitarization protective ensemble NECDF, Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility PBCDF, Pine Bluff Chemical Agent Disposal Facility PPE, personal protective equipment TAP, chemical protective clothing made primarily of butyl rubber TOCDF, Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility and UMCDF, Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. 

CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). 2005. Review of the U.S. Army Proposal for Off-site Treatment and Disposal of Caustic VX Hydrolysate from the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility A Report to Congress, April. Atlanta, Ga. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

Finding 6-8. The experience to date with the offsite shipment and treatment of mustard and nerve agent hydrolysates from the Aberdeen and Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities indicates that offsite transportation and disposal of these materials is a safe and technically viable course of action. 

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